Richard Chaffers
English pottery manufacturer
About Richard Chaffers
Lived 1731 – 1765 (aged 33–34). Richard Chaffers was a ceramics manufactory.
Richard Chaffers (1731 – 8 December 1765)
In 1755 Robert Podmore, a potter from the porcelain factory in Worcester, showed him and his business partner Philip Christian how to make porcelain using soapstone, discovered in Mullion Cove in Cornwall; Chaffers subsequently became a rival to Josiah Wedgwood.
Chaffers died in 1765, and was buried at the Church of Our Lady and Saint Nicholas, Liverpool. Philip Christian continued the business until 1778, trading as Philip Christian & Co, and later as Philip Christian and Son.
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English pottery manufacturer
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Richard Chaffers was a ceramics manufactory.
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